Dispensing device



y 9, 1940- Y F. G. TROY, JR

DISPENSING DEVICE Filed Aug. 3,.1958

u INVENTOR.

f- W i ATTORNEXS Patented July 9, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFICE 9 Claims.

The present invention relates to dispensing devices and its principal object is to provide a device of the character described which will pass out money in predetermined amounts at prede- 5 termined intervals, according to a budget plan.

Many people find it difficult to properly budget their money and most of the systems of budgeting previously proposed, which involve the keeping of books and regular entries, are much too complicated and time-consuming to appeal to the average person for any length of time.

It is proposed, in the present invention, to provide a budgeting means which does not require any book-keeping or the keeping of any records. My dispensing device is so constructed that the user, at the beginning of a period, as on pay-day, deposits in the device the amount of money he expects to spend during the period, whereupon the device dispenses at predetermined intervals, as for instance, in the morning of every successive day, a predetermined amount, so that the user will be sure that the amount will last to the end of the period.

It is further proposed to arrange the dispens- 25 ing device in such a manner that predetermined amounts in different coins may be dispensed whereby the system is rendered sufiiciently flexible to suit the needs of most persons.

It is further proposed to control 'the dispensing of the coins by means of a clock mechanism which is preferably arranged to allow of the dispensing of money at the same hour of each successive day.

Further objects and advantages of my invention will appear as the specification proceeds.

The preferred form. of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 shows a front view of my dispensing device; 40 Figure 2 a horizontal section taken along line IIII of Figure 1, and

Figure 3 a vertical section taken along line lII-III of Figure 2.

While I have shown only the preferred form of my invention I wish to have it understood that various changes or modification may be made within the scope of the claims hereto attached without departing from the spirit of the invention. 5 In its preferred form my dispensing device I comprises a rather narrow, rectangular housing 2 having a bottom 3, sides 4 and 5, a front 6, a rear wall I and top 8, which is hinged to the rear wall as at 9. In this housing are arranged a plurality of vertical tubes, designated by the numerals II], II and I2, the former being dimensioned to receive a stack of silver dollars and the latter two to receive stacks of fifty and twenty-five cent pieces, respectively.

.It will be noted that the dollar tube is mounted in one wing of the housing and the other tubes I in the opposite wing. The upper ends of the tubes are held in properly spaced relation by means of a horizontal plate I3, which is provided with suitable apertures I4 to receive the tubes and which is welded to the tubes and of the housing respectively.

The lower ends of the tubes-are similarly supported in spaced relation to one another and to the bottom of floor 3 of the housing by a plate I5, which extends horizontally throughout the housing and is welded to the walls thereof and to the tubes respectively. The upper ends of the tubes are provided with caps I6 which have suitable slots I! for the admission of the coins.

The floor 3 and the plate I define a space I8 in which two slides I9 and 20 operate. The slides are coextensive with the width of .the housing and are sufiiciently long to cause their inner edges 2I to come into close proximity to one another when the slides are pushed inwardly to occupy their normal position.

When in normal position the two slides comto the walls press an interposed spring 22, which urges the slides outward, and the outer extremities 23 of the slides project through slots 25 outside .of

the side walls of the housing. These parts of the slides which are underneath the tubes are formed with recesses 25 of sufiicient depth to recesses in the slides. The plate I5 is formed with a slot 3| in its central portion to accommodate the levers. The inner ends of the levers overlap as shown in Figure 3 and the upper one is formed with a cam 32 adapted to be pushed downward by a pin 33 projecting from the face of a gear wheel 34 meshing with a gear Wheel 35. The gear wheel 35 may be considered the hour wheel of a clock mechanism indicated schematically at 36 and is made to rotate oncein twelve hours while the wheel 34 rotates at half the speed, that is, once in-twenty-four hours. As the pin 33 depresses the cam 32, the latter depresses the inner end of both levers, whereby the outer ends of the-levers are raised, freeing the slides which are immediately pushed outward, to a slight distance, by the spring 22.

In this position the slides remain until the operator comes along and pulls out the slides further, as shown in dotted lines in FigureB, for removal of the coin. It will be noted that a. bottom portion of each recess is cut away, as at 31, toallow a portion of the coin 38 to be depressed through the bottom, wherebyan oppoa week into the several tubes.

site portion of the coin is made to rise for facilitating removal of the coin.

The manner of using my dispensing device may be readily understood from the foregoing description:

Assuming that a person receives his pay on each Saturday and wants to arrange his budget to have $1.75 available every day. He inserts the necessary number of silver coins to last for The clock mechanism then operates the cam 32 once every twenty-four hours, and at the same time on each day, to release the levers 26 and 21 and to cause the spring 22 to push the slides outward.

The operator may then, at any time thereafter, pull the slides further out, remove the coins, and push the slides back in again. It will be noted that the slides have: to be pushed clear back into engagement with the levers before they are loaded with additional coins, so that it is impossible to remove a second set of coins until after a new twenty-four hour period has passed.

The gear wheel 34 may be set originally relative to the gear wheel 35 to effect the release at a certain definite time each day, say at 6 oclock in the morning and it may be readily adjusted'for any other hour by changing the position of the gear wheel 34 relative to the wheel 35. Such changes might be easily eifected by mounting the gear wheel 34 with freedom of axial movement for disengagement from gear 35 and re-engagement in a diiferent position.

I claim:

1. In a device of the character described, a container having a plurality of tubes for holding stacks of coins of diiferent denominations and means for simultaneously releasing only predetermined number of coins from the stacks during each dispensing operation and at predetermined intervals, and including means for retaining the balance of the coins for subsequent dispensing, whereby a combination of coins may be had at each dispensing operation.

2. In a device of the character described, a tube for receiving coins, a slide underneath the tube having a recess for receiving a coin and for carrying said coin from. the tube, a lever having means at one end for releasably holding the slide against sliding movement and having a cam at the other end, and means operative on the cam for releasing the slide at predetermined intervals.

3. In a device of the character described, a tube for receiving coins, a slide underneath the tube having a recess for receiving a coin and for carrying said coin from the tube, a lever having means at one end for releasably holding the slide against sliding movement and having a cam at the other end, and means operative on the cam for releasing the slide at predetermined intervals, with spring means urging the slide to move relative to the tube.

4. In a device of the character described, a housing having coin-receiving tubes on opposite sides thereof for holding coins of different denominations, slides underneath the tubes having coin-receiving recesses therein for carrying only a predetermined-number of coins from. the tubes during each operation, the slides being mounted for movement in opposite directions for projecting through opposing walls of the housing, means for locking the slides to prevent movement relative to the tubes and means for releasing the locking means at predetermined intervals, whereby a combination of coins may be had during each dispensing operation.

5. In a device of the character described, a housing having coin-receiving tubes on opposite sides thereof for holding coins of different denominations, slides underneath the tubes having coin-receiving recesses therein for carrying only a predetermined number of coins from the tubes during each operation, the slides being mounted for movement in opposite directions for projecting through opposing walls of the housing, means for locking the slides to prevent movement rela tive to the tubes and means for releasing the locking means at predetermined intervals, with spring means urging the slides apart for initiating outward movement of the slide, whereby a combination of coins may be had during each dispensing operation.

6. In a device of the character described, a housing having coin-receiving tubes on opposite sides thereof for holding coins of different denominations, slides underneath the tubes having coin-receiving recesses therein for carrying only a predetermined number of coins from the tubes during each operation, the slides being mounted for movement in opposite directions for projecting through opposing walls of the housing, a pair of levers having means for releasably locking the slides against outward movement and means for releasing the levers at predetermined intervals, whereby a combination of coins may be had during each dispensing operation.

'7. In a device of the character described, a housing having coin-receiving tubes on opposite sides thereof, slides underneath the tubes having coin-receiving recesses therein for carrying coins from the tube, the slides being mounted for movement in opposite directions for projecting through opposing walls of the housing, a pair of levers having means for releasably locking the slides against outward movement, a cam on one of the levers, means for releasing the said lever at predetermined intervals and means operated by said lever for simultaneously releasing the other lever.

8. A coin slide of the character described comprising a plate having a coin-receiving recess in the surface thereof and having a portion of the bottom of the recess cut away to allow a corresponding portion of the coin to be depressed whereby an opposing portion of the coin is raised for facilitating the gripping of the coin.

9. In a device of the character described, a

housing having an opening in a wall thereof, a coin-receiving tube in the housing, a slide underneath the tube having a coin-receiving recess therein for carrying a coin from the tube, one end of the slide extending through the opening in the housing wall, means for locking the slide against movement outwardly of the housing, means for releasing the locking means at predetermined intervals, and spring means for urging the slide outwardly when released suificiently far to prevent the locking means from reengaging the slide until the latter is returned to its normal position, whereby the extended end of the slide may be grasped and pulled outwardly to expose the coin in the recess at any time after being partly projected by the spring means.

FREDERICK G. TROY, JR. 

